What do you think is your SINGLE most effective means of conserving automotive fuel?Adjust driving (speed limit, starts, etc)Plan trips (combine errands, carpools, etc.)Walk, bike, use public transit when possibleEliminate some travel destinationsDrive a fuel-efficient vehicleOther (please note in the discussion)IPost your thoughts about this poll below.

Pre-plan my routes,amount of traffic lights,eliminate some stops,reducing my idle time & speed limits,listen to the radio to avoid traffic jams if preventable.Preventive Vehicle Maintenance,time that i drive.

Plan your trips so that you can avoid traffic chokepoints and doubling back to make random stops. Drive steady and keep a good pace and allow for the car to do the work. The computer is smarter than you. If you let it take the gears to cruise speed in city or rural environments without flogging it, your mileage will soar, and you'll still get there in the same amount of time. People drag race with themselves and they don't even realize it.Don't use drive up windows. Moving through the line gives you ZERO gas mileage, Get you butt out of the car to go into the bank or Mickey D's like civilized people. The people inside will treat you like a human instead of a nameless robot.On the interstate highway, merge as fast and smoothly as you can, as herky jerky behavior on the throttle is totally amateurish. Pick a lane and keep the pace and keep a safe spacing distance, at least 4 cars length so that the jerks up ahead can slow and speed up without reaching into your gas tank.The constant acceleration and slowing down at highway speed just kills the gas mileage. DRIVE YOUR CAR NOT THE OTHER GUY'S.Cold or warm weather, let the engine and transmission circulate oil by letting the car idle for at least 20 seconds on cold starts and baby that accelerator until that engine gets warm.Ciao and be careful.

I have stopped driving my truck. I also have started using my bicycle whenever possible, although in the Phoenix metropolitan area where I live, the cities seems to be dead set against bike lanes on arterial streets. Almost all of the stores and businesses are located on arterial streets, so commuting to work or to the store can be a dangerous proposition. Many motorist scream at bicyclists to "get up on the sidewalk. Yet, between 72 & 80% of bicycle/motor-vehicle accidents occur when the bicyclist has been riding on the sidewalk. The law says that where there is no bike lane, a bicyclist on the roadway shall ride to the right of center of the rightmost lane and obey all the vehicle laws. The cities say that only 2% of bicyclists commute. They will probably be right as long as the cities refuse to put bike lanes on arterial streets, because riding where there is no bike lane can be dangerous. One other thing, those same cities tell us that for every year that they have reported, bicycle/motor-vehicle accidents have increased. We have started a petition asking the cities to; wherever there is an arterial street with more lanes in one direction than the other, make the number of lanes equal and put in a bike lane in both directions. This would reduce the bicycle/motor-vehicle accidents and cause motor-vehicle traffic to move more smoothly. If you want to help post on my white board.

Realize that any individual can only affect personal savings, but a few such acts of savings will not affect the national or international demand to a measurable degree.

Motor gasoline use in 2009 in the US was about the same as in 2008, while (only!) the overall oil consumption went down (mainly due to lower diesel, heating oil, fuel oil, and jet fuel demands)

How to save - rather than suggesting my favorite ways of saving to others, let the individual decide (or, for the time being, pay, knowing that this drives up the price?), because individual situations differ.

Living in a mixed use, higher density area provides me more opportunities to walk, bike, use public transit, and combine errands. However, I work in a suburban area, and it is more difficult to commute to work without a car, so I try to watch my speed/behavior when driving. I'd prefer commuter transit.